This quick-read guide includes best practices for every stage of hiring, addresses legal issues, shows how to best involve teacher peers, and presents an interview approach that predicts on-the-job success.

This book shows educators how to become powerful, effective allies for marginalized students so they can challenge the barriers, practices, and beliefs that diminish opportunities for many students.

A broad range of contributors explore the key themes and debates surrounding international perspectives on early childhood education and care.

ELMS is the first dedicated tool for evaluating early childhood literacy curriculum and literature to ensure your resources reflect the best research and instructional practices.

A user-friendly, practical guide on school-based mental health counseling approaches for K-12 school counselors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals

This textbook brings together all aspects of play in one place. Covering a wide range of types of play, play pioneers and their theories, play environments, and how play relates to young children's learning and development, the chapters also draw out tensions and challenges for those working with young children.

This book introduces early years practitioners to some contemporary theorists and explores their work alongside more well-known thinkers.

In today’s society the presence of safety risks and hazards like wildfires, pandemics, industrial activities and an increasing population combined with a more demanding environment demand a lot of the Dutch emergency response organizations or safety regions. Safety regions comprise the regional fire service and the regional medical service and stand in relationship with a large array of stakeholders like law enforcement, public administrations and the Dutch Department of Defense. The region...

An accessible text exploring the wider principles around ethics and values in education and supporting students in establishing their own professional identity.

Written for both preservice and in-service school counselors and those who support them, this essential guide prepares readers to take an active role in creating equitable conditions for success for all students.